Hi, <br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
OpenAerialMap started as a project about a year ago, when I was working<br>
with some aerial data provided by a number of sources. Instead of putting<br>
together all of the different sources, I was interested in combining them<br>
into one world-coverage basemap, to act as an "open" replacement for the<br>
Google Maps imagery layer for purposes where the highest resolutions are<br>
less important, or other data can fill in the gaps.<br></blockquote><br>As the subject says Using GeoBase images for openlayers for OpenStreetMap.<br>Currently we use the Yahoo Aerial imagery, it would be great to be able to use imagery from many other sources (this is just in the idea phase)<br>
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* The process of adding data to OAM was, practically speaking, impossible<br>
for anyone who was not an expert to follow. There are a number of<br>
technical reason for this, but I think that it is completely reasonable<br>
to say that these problems can only be resolved by participation in the<br>
project from people who are at least vaguely knowledgeable about working<br>
with large geographic data.<br></blockquote><br>Perhaps GeoBase would be able to be of assistance? Afterall, GeoBase made the WMS server available so others can use. My guess is they would be able to help, as it would be of great benifit for all the other government agencies, to be able to use a slippy map, containing all the GeoBase data. (images, map road and features)<br>
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I would suggest that what the project really needs is a way to upload<br>
data to be processed by the OpenAerialMap server itself, rather than<br>
depending on users to upload 'appropriate' data. This means developing<br>
a processing queue to convert data from any available format to one<br>
more suitable for use in OAM. The discussion of what is 'appopriate'<br>
for OAM requires further discussion as well.<br><br>
Best Regards,<br>
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Christopher Schmidt<br><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-December/004822.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-December/004822.html</a><br></blockquote>
<br>Perhaps i'm a little off, my suggesting that the aerial map be treated the same way that tiles@home gets treated... where it is another layer which can be used. But instead of grabbing the data from OpenStreetMap, it grabs the data from each different government WMS servers, and each of the sources for the Aerial imagery & satellite imagery.<br>
<br>The KDE project for Marble Desktop uses OpenStreetMap as a base map, i would think that they would be interested in possibly hosting all the aerial imagery, and perhaps the governments maps also? .. i'm not sure what they currently use for imagery.<br>
<br>The purpose of using this valuable aerial imagery would be 3 fold. 1- for map users to be able to use the imagery to be able to trace over for map areas which have not been mapped yet. 2 - for the community to be able to enhance the current state of the map with freely available data. 3 - for the OSGeo community to be able to use the very detailed government map, and be able to have it as a source for whatever applications it gets used on. (sorry, i don't know any other applications for OpenSource Geographical information, than openstreetmap - as it is a breed of it's own.) <br>
However this doesn't mean that OSM can't make use of even better OpenLayers.<br><br>Look forward to any replies of interest, as this is just another Idea i'm floating. :-)<br><br>Sam Vekemans<br>Across Canada Trails<br>
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